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Mississippi high court declines to rule on questions of public funds going to private schools

Associated Press
Mississippi
May 3, 2024

Public schools could not apply for the infrastructure grants, under the 2022 law passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed by Republican Gov. Tate Reeves.

Can public money go to private schools? Mississippi Supreme Court hears arguments

Associated Press
Mississippi
February 7, 2024

Rob McDuff, one of the attorneys representing the nonprofit group Parents for Public Schools, said the Mississippi Constitution specifies that public money should go only to public schools.

Mississippi’s top court to hear arguments over spending public money on private schools

Associated Press
Mississippi
February 6, 2024

The lawsuit cited a section of the Mississippi Constitution that prohibits the use of public money for any school that is not “a free school.”